For example, look at the two graphs of the temperature in 1700-2000 above (click to zoom in). Imagine that you have two curves, the purple one and the blue one. Imagine that you are Michael Mann and you want to write a paper about global warming. Which one would you use?

What do these two lines mean? The purple line comes from 64 datasets that were not used, for unspecified reasons, while the blue line comes from 55 datasets that dominate Mann's extrapolation procedure. Wow, it's just amazing.

The numbers 55 and 64 are pretty large. Don't tell me that you will get these two qualitatively different curves by averaging "random" subsets of the datasets. Unless Jeff has made a mistake, the "convenient" datasets were clearly chosen by hand while the "inconvenient" ones were manually thrown away.

If this is not fraud, what is?

But other things are even worse. 1,083 proxies out of 1,209 were "completed": the last 50 years were invented.

The absurd "blade" in the last 50 years in the graph above (click to zoom in) was completely fabricated: it comes from invented data, too. This is actually not the first time. Would it be really so difficult for some officials to notice what's going on here?